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How Computers Work: The Evolution of Technology, 10th Edition (How It Works)
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"Readers and I have caught some errors in the first printing of HowComputers Work 10th Edition. I have created a Facebook page at facebook.com/HCW10/ where you'll find corrected pages for all the errors readers and I have found. In addition, I've added some videos and information about newertechnology that was not available when the book was printed. All thecorrections are incorporated in the second printing of the book. -- RonWhite"
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About the Author
Ron White has been writing How Computers Work for 20 years, during which time he’s also been executive editor at PC Computing magazine, BYTE.com, and groovyPost.com. He’s been a computer columnist for Windows Sources and 80 Micro. How Computers Work was named best nonfiction computer book, and his writing has been honored by the Maggie Awards, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and The National Endowment for the Humanities. He and his wife, Sue, have bounced back and forth between Boston and San Francisco before finally ending up in San Antonio.
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Product details
Series: How It Works
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Que Publishing; 10 edition (December 18, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 078974984X
ISBN-13: 978-0789749840
Product Dimensions:
7.9 x 0.8 x 9.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
192 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#57,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Great book if you want to learn about computer and computer programming, it lets you understand how things work and how you can do this stuff yourself
Overall a great idea for a book. I am really putting a void account of effort into the reading (trying to gain a solid understanding of computers). But there are numerous errors in just the first chapter alone. I am considering returning the book and finding a textbook. Funny how this is recommended reading for Harvard's CS50x course.
I bought my grandson, a college freshman majoring in informatics, this book as a gift: How Computers Work (10th Ed.) by Ron White, First Printing, Dec. 2014. I pre-ordered it from Amazon back in November, 2014, and it did arrive in time for the holidays.While I applaud the effort and book overall, having owned several editions in the past, there are fundamental errors early in this first printing that could erode reader confidence, since the mistakes are so basic. I imagine this edition was rushed to press prior to the holiday season, and frankly, it shows.Now I must explain to my grandson the mistakes, and apologize.Here's just a sample of what I've found so far in Part 1:1. A table is not a computer, but a tablet such as an iPad is: Page 5, last paragraph: "--mainframe, desktop, table, digital music player, ... " ???2. P. 13, image 3, 4th sentence is not a sentence and doesn't help the explanation: "Resistance is how the material which the electricity is flowing." ???3. P. 15, image 5. The image of the rheostat is confusing and makes the opposite point it should. The way it is drawn, it contradicts the text. In fact, as the knob is turned clockwise, the amount of resistance should increase, not decrease as depicted in the image. When the knob in the diagram, as drawn, is turned clockwise, there is MORE resistive wire to travel through. The current out would therefore decrease. And that's just backwards to how knobs on radios and stereos normally work. Turning clockwise will increase the current out, not decrease it. Duh? See: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+does+a+rheostat+work&espv=2&biw=731&bih=387&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=SzKtVI3mOoOnyQTDz4KoBg&ved=0CDAQsAQ&dpr=1.754. P. 17, image of Mona Lisa is wrong, contradicts text to the left in section 6: The Mona Lisa appears in COLOR. This is NOT a half-tone image, consisting of only black and white dots. The whole example could be improved by showing a contrast between a half-tone (1-bit color) and, say, a 256-bit color image of Mona Lisa. E.g., see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone .5. P. 36, first paragraph. Pages XXX-xxx are referred to. Where are these pages?6. I bought the digital edition also, wondering if the same mistakes are there. Yes, they are. Furthermore, the navigation when scrolling was not working correctly in the latest version of Firefox (34.05) for the Mac (OS X 10.10.1). When I use the left navigation menu, click on Chapter 1, How Waves take the Universe on a Joy Ride, then start scrolling down, the page jumps to the beginning of the book! I can't even read it, unless I start scrolling from the beginning of the book. Come on now, this is totally unacceptable.So I tried Chrome (Version 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit)). While the navigation works, the first Interaction just came up with an empty black box with a yellow border. It just does NOT work at all (but surprisingly it does in Firefox, and I can add ducks to the waves, if I FIRST scroll from the beginning of the book to get there).7. The interactive animation on Writing Data to RAM (and reading it) is confusing. When getting to Reading data from RAM (in the same interaction), the illustration is simply confusing. How can a capacitor send a current through a transistor that is CLOSED. The circuit is broken between the capacitor and the data line. How can current travel from the capacitor to the data line, if the switch is off? This is not logical. It must be wrong, or I'm missing something here.Overall, this is NOT a good start to the book, and makes me a doubter of the accuracy of some of the content in this first printing/web edition. I'm afraid I cannot recommend this book to others at this time with errors I've discovered in the first few dozen pages.I am not a computer novice, having started with programming in FORTRAN on mainframe computers with punched cards. I taught college students how to use computers over 4 decades. More recently, I've written interactive Web simulations, tutorials and tests that are widely used.My advice: Wait for a later printing when some of these rather basic and embarrassing errors are fixed in the 10th edition.
The artwork is nice, sure. But it slams you with concepts so quickly, and takes zero effort to make sure you fully integrate anything you learn. Not only is it paced terribly, but a great ton of the information presented here is flat-out FALSE.If anything, this book may be considered a nice reference book, for those looking for a quick and easy refresh on concept they learned (more thoroughly) elsewhere.God forbid you give this as a gift to a tech-inspired child.
I have just finished reading chapter 1, but so far I am seeing numerous errors. I have already found two typos. Worse than that, the author doesn't seem to understand binary calculations. On page 17, the author tells me that 16 bits yields 256 combinations... this jumped out at me. I did the math, looked up my answer to confirm, and found that the author was wrong. In reality, the amount of possible combinations yielded is 2 to Nth power, where N is the amount of bits. So 16 bits would yield 65536 possible combinations.Here's how the author probably messed up the calculation. He may have run the equation as N bits to the 2nd power, instead of 2 bits to the Nth power. This would explain why he got 256 combinations with 16 bits, instead of 65536. Perhaps this was just one mistake by the author, but given this book is called, "How Computers Work", this was a pretty big mistake. The illustrations are nice, but I don't like the writing style as much, and the errors I have found make me not like the book.P.S.: if you need convincing that his math was wrong, I have attached a GIF that will show you. Each square represents 1 bit, because they each can only be two colors.
This book is a great value for anyone seeking a general understanding of how computers work. The author and illustrator effectively cover a tremendous breadth of material with simple text and excellent visual aids, but without being silly or so simplistic as to be meaningless. The material is broken up into logical chapters, but is served up in 2-page increments, so the book is easy to pick up for a few minutes, learn about a concept or method, and then go about other activities. It also flows in an incremental manner that builds from the basics of hardware and software all the way up to the internet and complicated graphics programs. It pays about equal attention to hardware and software, and introduces common but often misunderstood terms and principles. I would highly recommend the book to non-subject-matter-experts seeking an architectural or conceptual view of computers. While one will not be able to build a computer or write code after reading only this book, he or she will certainly have a much better idea of how all the hardware and software components of a computer and network work together to perform a myriad of functions. Topics are as diverse as transistor operation, boolean algebra, spreadsheets, digital photography, computer games, printers, Google, eBay, viruses, security, data storage, local area networks, power supplies, joysticks, operating systems, and many subjects in between. I have enjoyed and appreciated this book. My thanks to the author and illustrator--they've helped me a great deal!
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